In 1998, James A. LeBeau founded Standard Capital, a Multi-housing & Commercial Real Estate financing firm. Mr. LeBeau primarily engages in the origination, analysis, negotiation, and placement of commercial mortgage loans, including property acquisitions, permanent long-term debt, bridge loans, construction financing, and “value-added” loan structures on existing and proposed retail centers, apartment-condo complexes, office buildings, industrial parks, land, and full-service flagged or boutique hotels.
Clients (“the Borrower”) secure both fixed and variable interest rates. Clients range from familiar well-known families, to private individuals, to partnerships, to limited liability companies, to Corporations specifically set up for real estate ownership and development. Mr. LeBeau also assists clients on dispositions of assets, the timely review of their loan documents post-closing, the entitlement process, and securing construction draws during build-out phases.
Over the past ten years, Mr. LeBeau and his company arranged, on behalf of borrowers, over $200 million in commercial real estate loans, in 79 transactions located throughout the Southwest and in the Tucson & Phoenix cities (Pima & Maricopa counties), in the state of Arizona, in the United States of America. Mr. LeBeau currently focuses on the following finance transactions: partnership creation, equity capital infusions, general partner buy-outs, GP buy-ins, construction lending, time-sensitive sponsorship re-structuring, adaptive re-use financing, and non-recourse permanent financing on stable income-producing assets.
Capital sources (“the Lender”) for these loans have included life insurance companies, FNMA, Wall Street/conduits, credit companies, foreign & domestic banks, and pension funds. The average loan size is between $1,000,000 and $12,000,000. Standard Capital has quality, reliable, Lenders for larger loan sizes, which are available today.
Prior to forming Standard Capital, from 1995-1998, Mr. LeBeau was a loan officer, for Keystone Capital Group (GMAC Commercial Mortgage which became Capmark), located in Tucson, Arizona under James R. Sellers. Prior to that, in 1994, he worked as an investment & commercial real estate marketing associate for Mullin Partners, and directly assisted the developer to secure and develop new properties at the very beginning of the maximum influx of companies re-locating from out-of-State, and out-of-Country, to the-then-much-smaller, but up-and coming, Scottsdale Airpark, in Scottsdale, Arizona.
In 1993, Mr. LeBeau received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Clemson University located in South Carolina, USA, specializing in real estate development, and studied overseas, in Munich, Germany for an additional international business emphasis, during the one year accelerated MBA program. In 1992, Mr. LeBeau received a BA in philosophy with a double minor in political science and general business from Gonzaga University located in Spokane, Washington. In 1988, Mr. LeBeau graduated from Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix, AZ. He is a native Arizonan who experienced metro Phoenix (Maricopa County) and Tucson (Pima County) go through much change. His desire is to help maintain a beautiful Arizona by preserving her best identity while simultaneously increasing her quality of life by blending the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ traditions of architecture into well-planned developments for each great city.
Mr. LeBeau is the Responsible Individual for Standard Capital’s Arizona Mortgage Broker license registered with the Arizona Department of Financial Institutions (MB-0902032).
- He is member of the Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce www.tucsonchamber.org
- A member of the Pima County Real Estate Research Council www.pcrerc.com
- Mr. Le Beau gives generously to local community charities when resources allow.